You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
1Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
Tool ResultsArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.265,
ImprovementsSection of the release
What
When a tool's output is too large to show directly and Claude Code saves it to a file instead, that saved file can itself be cut off at a byte limit. Now, when this happens, the error message shown to Claude explicitly notes that the saved file only contains the first N bytes or characters of the original output, that it may end in the middle of a structure, and that trying to parse it as JSON can therefore fail.
Why
This extra warning helps Claude (and anyone reading the error) understand why a saved file might fail to parse, instead of appearing to be a mysterious JSON error.